Author: Romain RollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE, LA FIN DU VOYAGE ENGL.
Author: Romain RollandSacred and Profane Beauty
Author: Gerardus LeeuwPublisher:
ISBN: 9780195223804
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what is now a burgeoning field. Sacred and Profane is the fullest expression of his pursuit of a theological aesthetics, surveying religion's relationship to all the arts -- dance, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music. This edition makes this seminal work, first published in Dutch in 1932, newly available. A new foreword by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona analyzes the continuing relevance of van der Leeuw's thought. Van der Leeuw's impassioned and brilliant investigation of the relationship between the holy and the beautiful is founded upon the conviction that for too long the religious have failed to seriously contemplate the beautiful, associating it as they do with the kingdom of sensuality and impermanence. Similarly it has been alien to literati and aesthetes to reflect upon the holy, for they choose to consider this physical world to be permanent, and therefore to be glorified through beauty alone. In truth, as van der Leeuw undertakes to show in Sacred and Profane Beauty, the holy has never been absent from the arts, and the arts have never been unresponsive to the holy. Whether one considers the Homeric epics, the dancing Sivas and Vedic poems, the sacred wall paintings of ancient Egypt, the primitive mask, or the range of sacred arts developed out of Latin and Byzantine Christianity, primordial creation in the arts was always directed toward the symbolization and interpretation of the holy. The fact that in our day this original connection is obscured and the artistic impulse is more generally regarded as wholly individualistic and autonomous does not contradict van der Leeuw's thesis; indeed, the breakdown of the unity of the holy and the arts is central to his thesis. Van der Leeuw was the rare thinker who combined profundity of insight, grace of style, and a willingness to take daring intellectual chances. In Sacred and Profane, he describes each of the arts in its original unity with the religious and then analyzes its historical disjunction and alienation. After a penetrating investigation of the structural elements within the arts which illumines a crucial dimension of the religious experience, van der Leeuw points toward the reemergence of an appropriate theological aesthetics on which a reunification of the arts could be founded.
The Readers' Guide and Students' Review
Author: Hampstead Public Libraries (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Library of John Quinn
Author: John QuinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book auctions
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
French Literature During the Last Half-century
Author: Pierre Dareutière de BâcourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Index Eng to Zul
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Quarterly Bulletin of the Public Library, Hartford, Conn
Author: The Nation
Author: Comics and Narration
Author: Thierry GroensteenPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628467967
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This book is the follow-up to Thierry Groensteen's groundbreaking The System of Comics, in which the leading French-language comics theorist set out to investigate how the medium functions, introducing the principle of iconic solidarity, and showing the systems that underlie the articulation between panels at three levels: page layout, linear sequence, and nonsequential links woven through the comic book as a whole. He now develops that analysis further, using examples from a very wide range of comics, including the work of American artists such as Chris Ware and Robert Crumb. He tests out his theoretical framework by bringing it up against cases that challenge it, such as abstract comics, digital comics and shojo manga, and offers insightful reflections on these innovations. In addition, he includes lengthy chapters on three areas not covered in the first book. First, he explores the role of the narrator, both verbal and visual, and the particular issues that arise out of narration in autobiographical comics. Second, Groensteen tackles the question of rhythm in comics, and the skill demonstrated by virtuoso artists in intertwining different rhythms over and above the basic beat provided by the discontinuity of the panels. And third he resets the relationship of comics to contemporary art, conditioned by cultural history and aesthetic traditions but evolving recently as comics artists move onto avant-garde terrain.